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News Their comments follow a demonstration of email accounts being hacked through a public access hotspot on the BBC's Watchdog programme. Customers are responsible for their own wi-fi security, according to hotspot operators. [03 Nov 2009]
Blocked: BBC plan to share iPlayer with rivals
News If the BBC invested a lot of money in it and then it was found to have competition issues, then it wouldn't really be a good thing for the licence-fee payers," a BBC Trust spokesman told... [21 Oct 2009]
BBC iPlayer gets ready to go Worldwide
News Luke Bradley-Jones, MD and EVP of BBC.com, discussed the possibility of introducing a pay model for international users in a recent interview with paidContent. BBC Worldwide has... [12 Oct 2009]
BBC names new CIO as part of tech shake-up
News The BBC has appointed a new CIO as part of a restructuring of its broadcast and enterprise technology area within the Future Media & Technology division. From 12 October, Tiffany Hall will be responsible for strategic... [09 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge.silicon.com's Nick Heath talks to Hopper about the BBC Micro, Acorn's... [07 Oct 2009]
Media Company Expects Lower Phone Costs, Less Travel With Communications Solution
White Paper BBC Worldwide, a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation, produces and sells television programs and other media products. With help from POSTcti, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, BBC... [02 Oct 2009]
Mike Lynch
AS Profile He has been awarded an OBE for services to enterprise and is an executive director of the BBC. The company has spent the rest of the year integrating the Interwoven technology into its own products - something Lynch... [29 Sep 2009]
Erik Huggers
AS Profile Since becoming director of the BBC's Future Media and Technology division in July 2008 following the departure of Ashley Highfield, former Microsoft-employee Erik Huggers has certainly made his mark. But Huggers is also... [29 Sep 2009]
Ashley Highfield
AS Profile Having said this, it became clear what he had been working on since joining Microsoft when the company announced its own long-form on-demand TV service MSN Video, which includes content from BBC Worldwide and independent... [29 Sep 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News Field predicted the areas of the public sector where open source could flourish was within organisations that contained the greatest amount of in-house technical expertise, such as the BBC, the Met Office and Ordnance... [29 Sep 2009]
Photos: Computer history goes under the hammer
Photo Another classic in the collection is this BBC Micro computer which comes complete with user manual, the game 'Tank Attack' and the Prinztronic tournament mini TV game, otherwise known as 'Pong' (with original box). [29 Sep 2009]
Exclusive: BBC CIO swaps Auntie for consultancy
News Little, who featured on silicon.com's CIO50 list of the most influential heads of IT, left the BBC at the beginning of August with BBC CTO, John Linwood, taking over many of his... [17 Sep 2009]
Turning Web X.0 Data Into Competitive Advantage
White Paper This paper presents a project at IBM Research, commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), to leverage deep Web data to help them stay in touch with their client base. Over the last decade, companies have... [16 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.09.09
Round-Up It's a draconian move by the council bosses especially when, according to the BBC, the council didn't know whether staff had been accessing Facebook in lunchtimes or even before and after work, which had been previously... [04 Sep 2009]
BBC, C4 and ITV's Kangaroo finally finds new home with Arqiva
News The on-demand TV platform developed by BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and ITV - known as Project Kangaroo - has had its new home confirmed. Project Kangaroo, a collaboration between BBC Worldwide, ITV and... [25 Aug 2009]
